Scripts Quotes - Page 14

• I'm just an actor. It's the way the script is written, and it's easy. I don't have think about it. When you receive the script, you know pretty well how to play it, apart from little technicalities like the accent.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Thinking, Play, Actors

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• If I'm writing a novel, I'll probably get up in the morning, do email, perhaps blog, deal with emergencies, and then be off novel-writing around 1.00pm and stop around 6.00pm. And I'll be writing in longhand, a safe distance from my computer. If I'm not writing a novel, there is no schedule, and scripts and introductions and whatnot can find themselves being written at any time and on anything.

  Neil Gaiman

  Morning, Distance, Writing

  "Interview with Neil Gaiman". Writers and Artists Interview, www.writersandartists.co.uk.

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• You always have to write script with a budget in mind. Although it's always good to write the big story, you really have to think about how things are going to work as far as cast, effects and settings. It's a process. You have to always think budget and then execute and make it happen.

  Harrison Smith

  Writing, Thinking, Mind

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• I've done films where you have to get in shape for purely vanity reasons, when you read a script, turn to page 87 and it says: "Rips his shirt off and casually throws it onto chair" - and you're going to go to the gym the next day because nobody wants to see your big fat arse out there taking your shirt off!

  Bruce Willis

  Rip, Next Day, Vanity

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• It took me three, four years, to get from my first film to my second film, banging on doors, trying to get people to give me a chance. Writing, struggling, with no money in the bank, working as an editor on the side. Working as a cameraman on the side. Getting little jobs, eking out a living. Trying to stay alive, and pushing a script that nobody wanted.

  George Lucas

  Jobs, Struggle, Writing

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

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• I can picture certain things in my mind, while writing the script, but then I can also tell that everyone else might be a little confused about what it's supposed to look like at the end of the day. But it all works out. I find a way.

  Rob Zombie

  Confused, Writing, Work Out

  Source: www.complex.com

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• I wouldn't be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast. Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.

  Al Pacino

  Thinking, Play, Television

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• Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I'm playing.

  Al Pacino

  Character, Responsibility, Relative

  Lawrence Grobel, Al Pacino (2008). “Al Pacino”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• When I worked with Woody Allen, I only got the parts of the script that I was in. I was able to piece together the narrative from that, but I remember being quite excited to watch the movie - the movie that I was in but didn't know what happened in, like, 65 percent of.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Together, Watches, Pieces

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When you work without a script, you are in a sense working in a much more improvisational way than when you are prepared totally.

  Sydney Pollack

  Way, Prepared

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• What happens to me when I read a script, when something grabs hold of me, I start getting these flashes of people or places or things or images.

  Johnny Depp

  People, Flash, Happens

  "Brooding Johnny muses on his motley career and reinventing Ichabod Crane for Tim Burton's 'Sleepy Hollow'". Contactmusic Interview, www.contactmusic.com. January 2009.

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• I remember reading scripts when I started in the business, and [Latino roles] were either nonexistent or written as the maid or a drug dealer. We're no longer just that. I'll play any part that challenges me. What's important is that all races have choices.

  Eva Mendes

  Reading, Race, Play

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I'm not ambitious when it comes to my acting career. I'm not breaking down my agency's doors or sending out headshots. Even when I'm offered work, I always want small parts. When it comes to things that other people have written, I just don't know what I'm doing. I'm terrible at memorizing a script and reading lines. I get confused and I don't understand and it just looks fake to me. It's more difficult for me to be creative that way.

  Amy Sedaris

  Confused, Reading, Agency

  "Amy Sedaris: The Believer Interview". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.ericspitznagel.com. March, 2004.

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• I wake up to an email from the writers with the new script, and I always get so excited because I know it'll be better all-around than the script from the week before.

  Bailee Madison

  Email, Wake Up, Excited

  Source: www.etonline.com

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• I'm an unashamed realist, and actually, I try to make whatever the script is the reality of that situation, even though it's fictional.

  Wolfgang Petersen

  Reality, Trying, Realist

  Source: www.aintitcool.com

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• Everyday life became infused with urgency as I tried to speak and act in ways that fit the holy script and glorified God in new contexts.

  Kevin Vanhoozer

  Everyday, Way, Speak

  Source: exiledpreacher.blogspot.com

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• You have to leave the window open for better classes to come along as you go. You can't grow too proud of your script. You have to let the thing shape itself. It guarantees the best classes will always be used and it also keeps you from going braindead. If you grow bored and uninspired working on something, the audience will be able to tell.

  Don Hertzfeldt

  Bored, Guarantees, Shapes

  Source: www.notcoming.com

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• I can remember the time I would get my scripts and spent the entire weekend breaking them down and playing with them, and putting a lot of work into them, trying to bring the character to life, and to make interesting choices. It was one of the things to me that told me that I needed to change things up a little bit, because to me, I felt the passion was lacking from some of my performances.

  James Scott

  Character, Passion, Weekend

  "The James Scott Farewell Interview – Days of our Lives". Interview with Michael Fairman, michaelfairmansoaps.com. October 21, 2014.

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• I love horror films, so I guess it's one of those things where I find myself interested in the script.

  Elisha Cuthbert

  Horror, Film, Horror Film

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• I learned that you really don't have any control as a writer. Waah, waah, waah. Big deal. Unless you're the director on the movie, or putting up the money for the movie, you really don't have a lot of control. As someone who's just writing scripts, you just kind of have to shrug. I have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general. It is what it is.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Writing, Issues, Directors

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. April 22, 2009.

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• I think the books are the books. They were conceived as books. They weren't conceived as movies. When I write scripts, that's an idea and a situation that I think is a really good idea for a movie. When I'm writing a book, I'm not thinking, "Oh, this would be a great movie." This would be a very interesting book. And I think the books are things that cannot really be adapted into another medium.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. April 22, 2009.

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• For the last episode [of Downton Abbey], you'll need some handkerchiefs. I needed handkerchiefs reading it. It wasn't because it necessarily moved me while reading it, but it was the experience of reading it when I realized it was the last time I was ever going to be reading one of those scripts. That was quite terminal.

  Hugh Bonneville

  Reading, Needs, Lasts

  "Hugh Bonneville Talks ‘Downton Abbey’, The Final Season, Julian Fellowes, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 28, 2015.

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• I never say never, but I haven't been given the quality of script to compel me to go on television.

  Nicolas Cage

  Quality, Goes On, Television

  "Nicolas Cage Is '2 Percent Open' to the Existence of Ghosts". Interview with Matt Patches, www.esquire.com. September 25, 2015.

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• When you really want a role and you really want a character, you become quite close to the script and the project, and it is sad when it doesn't go your way. But I've found there's always another one, which will be as good if not better. You can't let your failures bring you down when you're an actor, because then you can't get up.

  Asa Butterfield

  Character, Roles, Actors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I write scripts by myself. It's not for everybody. It's someone's personal work. I need to be in love with the subject.

  Jean-Pierre Jeunet

  Writing, Needs, Subjects

  Source: collider.com

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